Title:聽Resisting the unexperienced Abstract: An experience is epistemically transformative when you can鈥檛 know what it鈥檚 like without having the experience. Though this characterisation doesn鈥檛 neatly fit聽transformative聽experiences, a surprising number of…
Title:聽Multiple Aims of Science and the New Demarcation Problem Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title:聽The Democratic Soul in Plato and Whitman Abstract: In Books II-IV of the Republic, Plato famously proposes an analogy between the constitution of the Greek city-state and the constitution of…
Title:聽Hypocrisy as Evasion Abstract: Hypocrites attract moral condemnation and are widely thought to lack standing to criticise others. This paper argues against attempts to explain this that appeal to moral…
Title: Revisiting the Spinoza Controversy in an age of Environmental Crisis Abstract: Modern scientific naturalism arguably tries to ontologically describe or account for the entirety of the natural world using…
Title:聽The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the聽Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by…
Title:聽Autonomy and control over one鈥檚 social self-consciousness Abstract: Humans have the capacity to absorb 鈥� to feel 鈥� others鈥� feelings. More particularly we feel others鈥� feelings about ourselves: at least…
Title:聽Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency Abstract: This paper argues that Kant鈥檚 theory of radical evil exalts the powers of organized, shared and institutional, agency. In section 1, I…
Title:聽The (Aesthetic) Value of Environmental Activism Abstract: TBC Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title: Merely Imagined Moralities Abstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films, novels, operas, pop songs, etc.) often express heroic, pessimistic, melancholy, or dark ways of looking at the world (also…
Title: Tbc Abstract: Tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title: Responsibility, Causality, and Carbon Accounting Abstract: 聽Carbon accounting standards hold companies accountable (i.e. responsible) for the greenhouse gas emissions from their value chains, but what is the basis for…
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